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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

CHARLES ZIMMERLING, OF PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA.

IRONINGfTABLET.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 373,168, dated November 15, 1887.

Application filed October 25, 1886. Serial No. 217,111. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern,.-

Be it known that I, CHARLES ZIMMERLING, a citizen of the United States, residing in the city and countyofPhiladelphia, State of Pennsylvania, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Ironing-Tablets, which improvement is fully set forth in the following specification and accompanying drawings,in which-- Figure 1 represents a perspective view of an ironingvtablet embodying my invention. Fig. 2 represents a section thereof in line a: a', Fig. 1. Fig. 3 represents a bottom plan thereof.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in the several figures.

My invention consists of an ironing-tablet in which the face is available for the application of a hot iron and the back adapted to admit portions of the same to be scraped' or shaved off for mixing with the starch.

Referring to thedrawings, A represents a piece or cake of beeswax, paraftne-wax, or other analogous material suitable for ironing purposes- E represents a label or piece of paper which occupies the back of the cake and contains directions for use ofthe tablet, said label being pasted or gummedto the band D.

The spurs C areintegral with the plate B and turned down from the same, so as to penetratethe wax.

tom lof the iron, thus waxing the same for purposes of ironing. When the ironing is iinished, the plate is embedded in the cold Wax and so retains its position, there remaining on the plate a thin ilm of wax, which is melted by the next application of the iron, and thus the tablet may be used until exhausted.

I am aware that it is not new to construct an ironing-tablet having a perforated plate in connection with a piece of wax, and I do not claim the same; but in such device the perforated plate has a border or rim which embraces the sides of the stand, thereby covering the sides of the piece of wax, so that some of the melted wax which passes through the perforations ows down the sides of the rim, needing -to be removed therefrom. This is avoided by securing the plate to the wax by means of the spurs and dispensing with the rim, the overiowing wax coming in contact and uniting .with the main body or piece of wax.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

As an improved article of manufacture, an ironing-tablet consisting of a piece of Wax and a perforated plate with spurs, the plate being secured to the piece of wax by means of the said spurs, all substantially as and for the purpose set forth.

CHARLES ZIMMERLING. Witnesses:

JOHN A. WIEDERSHETM, Y A. P. GEANT. 

